Sentences with phrase «do know the phenomenon»

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A psychological phenomenon known as «negative social proof» would argue that the «right thing» to do becomes questionable when people see the right people doing the wrong things.

Does anyone know the origins of this phenomenon (or whatever the proper term for «A word from the Lord»)?

The more one considers this eventuality (which can not be dismissed as a myth, as certain morbid symptoms, such as Sartrian existentialism, show) the more does one tend to the view that the grand enigma presented by the phenomenon of Man is not the question of knowing how life was kindled on earth, but of understanding how it might be extinguished on earth without being continued elsewhere.

We do not know what caused this phenomenon, whether it was the outcome of some sudden convulsion or of a long process of ripening.

Now, the secularists, naturalistic evolutionists and Marxists do accept the evolution of reason, but I am afraid they do not know how to look for the right phenomenon which points to the direction reason is being transformed.

If faith, simply as a human phenomenon, can do these things, then why is there any need to be concerned with some additional special kind of faith known as the Christian faith?

Also, while he is no doubt right to set himself against «entertainment worship» and other atrocities of the church - growth phenomenon, his suspicion of anything popular poses problems for evangelization and does not jibe with the enduring popularity through the centuries of the very liturgy that he champions.

Dewey's thoroughly secular «common faith» — which he did not hesitate to call a secular religion — could accommodate Christianity, on the condition that the latter drop the claims to truth and authority that identify it with the historical phenomenon known as Christianity.

I don't know if God exists or not (agnostic), but I choose to believe there are no Gods or supernatural phenomena (atheist).

No, you don't need as many mathematics models to describe evolution as you need, say, models to describe gravitation under general relativity, but they're being used to explain different phenomenon.

Confronted by the phenomenon of «socialization» in which Mankind is irresistibly involved, do we seek to know how to act that we may better conform to the secret processes of the world of which we are a part?

The question of course is: how does a person like me who is experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena while in an altered state of consciousness know whether or not it is god who is communicating with them?

In her article» Don't Talk About Race» (December 1999), Sarah E. Hinlicky shows herself to be all too vulnerable to the tiresome phenomenon known as «white guilt.»

Similarly, a momentary and passing sensitivity to time, or even a lasting one, are well known phenomena: when a decision has to be made in a fairly short span of time; when a job to be done is so urgent that its accomplishment amounts to a struggle against time itself; or when in waiting for pleasant or unpleasant events one's gaze becomes increasingly fixed on the hands of the clock.

Angels do not know sex because sex is a phenomenon requiring corporality.

I do know with some intimacy what it is to he an empirical scientist, but only as dealing with some very special ranges of phenomena.

Obviously on one hand, some see it as a supernatural (which doesn't mean «ghosts / spooky» but «beyond known natural occurrences / laws» event, while others see it as within the natural phenomenon, but in some way directly addressed to their specific need.

We do not start with knowing all about atoms and molecules and then seem to understand the phenomena of biology.

Since I am not a scientist, I am not always sure what I am looking at, nor do I have the theoretical background to discern all the implications of a particular phenomenon, but as a preacher — that is, someone who lives on stories — I find the stories rolling in from the frontiers of the new science as rich in meaning as any stories I know.

As a deist I can accept a creator, whether a god or natural phenomenon, I do not know.

They don't take the logical leap to attribute unexplained phenomenon to an all - knowing, omnipotent being that created the world and universe in a week, and then stopped doing anything after that.

I doubt any of us have it right, I do know consciousness is a very strange fact or phenomena.

The alleged third Quest, while no more uniform than its predecessors, rejects Bultmann's double verdict about Quests, and is determined to know as precisely as possible what Jesus did and did not say, and to understand the critically certified Jesus as a historical phenomenon in the social landscape of his time.

Kids don't really remember things from when they are small, thanks to a phenomenon known as childhood amnesia.

It's a phenomenon that drives many parents crazy but ultimately I think it marks the time when they have a strong drive to move and know that it's possible, but don't quite have the skills yet.

I do support the taking a moment to listen, and glad to know that the myriad experiences of women like me who do that and still don't have kids who sleep through the night isn't a geographical phenomenon.

Another phenomenon associated with in - home sleep training, is that babies often do things for a stranger that they won't do for their parents - I have no clinical evidence for this statement, but in my experience babies and toddlers will be more compliant to an authority figure that they do not know very well.

Students should know that there are such things as the laws of nature and physics, which we believe govern every single phenomenon in the universe, even if they don't study in detail what those are.

Scicchitano described the warning as a scientific product based on work climate scientists did on the ocean - atmospheric phenomenon known as La Niña, finding that it would affect rainfall most severely in the Horn of Africa.

Goose bumps, shivering, extensor movements of the arms, rapid flexion of the elbows, elevation of the arms above the bed, crossing of the hands, reaching of the hands toward the neck, forced exhalation, and thoracic respiratory - like movements... These complex sequential movements are felt to be release phenomena from the spinal cord including the upper cervical cord and do not [emphasis author's] mean that the patient is no longer brain dead.»

We do know that when testosterone builds up in animals, it causes a phenomenon called the winner effect.

A brand new science for studying this networked phenomenon, and in effect it's kind of a reverse engineering the World Wide Web that we know and the kinds of networks that we see on that to try to figure out how they took shape and maybe from that we can learn what principles involve and how networks do grow and you might be able to use that sort of thing to be able to develop a better system s for example being able to create more efficient networks and that could be very valuable in industry, there may be a lot of practical applications, involving protecting privacy, for example, and stopping people from stealing identities; and you should, you know, should be of just an interesting phenomenon.

aegypti mate only once, a phenomenon known as monandry; but they didn't know why.

The researchers aren't exactly sure how the bats are able to do this, but suspect it occurs by some combination of tongue deformation and the ability of fluids like nectar to flow without external force in certain narrow spaces, a phenomenon known as capillary action.

It is a known phenomenon and one of many that we do not yet fully understand but which may be telling us as much about learning and evolution of the brain as about how we forget.

One of the problems Smith often sees is that «the entrepreneurs try to do all the work themselves without bringing in external help» — a phenomenon known as «founders disease.»

In 1905, Einstein wrote in the opening paragraph of his first paper on relativity theory, «It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics — as usually understood at the present time — when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena.»

Ask the person to explain what they know: People who feel sure of their position set a high bar for contrary evidence, Ditto says, but often such confidence stems from a misperception that they know more than they actually do, a phenomenon researchers call the illusion of explanatory depth.

Newton, who formulated the universal law of gravity and used it to explain a wealth of phenomena, including the orbits of planets, the tides of the ocean, and the flattening of Earth at its poles, did not need to know the value of G. Nor, for that matter, do NASA engineers who plot the paths of space probes with breathtaking precision.

«I don't know of a model that explains a wider range of phenomena in terms of learning and the structure of the brain.»

Although scientists knew of this phenomenon in the South China Sea and beyond, they didn't know exactly how internal waves formed.

To understand how it does so, you have to know a little about the Hall effect itself — a phenomenon named after the physicist Edwin Hall, who first observed and reported it in 1879.

• View the slideshow of quantum erasure in action • Discuss the experiment in the blog Quantum effects are not usually the kind of thing you expect to see around the house, but the May issue of Scientific American includes an experiment you can do at home that illustrates the odd phenomenon known as quantum erasure.

The phenomenon that underlies hypnosis may still be unclear, but patients don't need to know what causes it as long as it helps them tolerate painful or anxiety - provoking medical procedures.

On one hand, it «will worsen the well - known phenomenon of patronage,» because if you want to be sure that after 5 +5 and 3 +3 years you'll get a permanent position you'll do everything to please your boss, she points out.

To do this, the researchers exploit a phenomenon known as entanglement, in which the quantum state of one photon is linked to that of another, regardless of how far apart they are.

Experts say this has something to do with a psychological phenomenon known as pareidolia.

Lacking a mechanistic explanation for this time - series analysis - derived cycle, we don't know — in fact, all the PDO is (so far) is a statistical phenomenon.

Since other phenomena, such as a plague of star - spots, or a close binary system of two orbiting stars, can also cause a star's light to appear to dip, how do astronomers know that they have really detected a transiting planet?

This is the phenomenon that Ed Lorenz famously first described as «chaos,» and from this we know that, not only do we lack the technology to make a skillful 30 - day weather forecast, it is fundamentally impossible.